“Over the last 67 years and now more so after the coup plot, literally hundreds of general officers have been removed from the system,” says Eric Edelman, who served as the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy from 2005-09.”
A directed energy weapon could also be mounted on an MH-60 Black Hawk, he noted. Mark Gunzinger, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said based on the relatively small size of a helicopter the laser would likely have between 15 and 30 kilowatts of power. “That would pack a pretty good punch” at short ranges against a soft target, he said…
“The danger here is this could spiral out of control and turn into a full-blown civil war,” Mr Eric Edelman, a former US ambassador to Turkey and former leading Pentagon official under president George W. Bush, said on Friday.
Eric Edelman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005, told me that when he served at the embassy, he never heard from Erdogan's government any complaints about Gulen's status as an asylum seeker in the U.S. “In those days they were thick as thieves,” he said.
“Capabilities in development would enable larger caliber guns to launch HVPs at air and missile threats over medium ranges (10–30 nautical miles),” read a May report on air and missiles from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA).
The F-35B’s participation in Red Flag is a major step forward for the program, said Jesse Sloman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington.
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